Gardening in NH

[Vote Tyler Stearns]

All clay and rocks here on our side of the ridge.

We have built several retaining walls and decorative walls just to use some of the rocks up (and we still have piles of rocks at the edge of the woods because we can only use so many). We have gardened in the same area for nearly 20 years and rocks still come up. We think we must have built on a rock farm!

Clay can be worked with by amending with shredded newspaper, shredded leaves and well composted manure. May take a while, but it can be done. Raised beds can work, but you must be at 40-60 feet from any trees, otherwise the tree roots find them and invade (voice of experience).

Yeah, I hear ya.  This is the granite state.  It's amazing that any early settlers ever survived in NH.  My husband tries to use the rocks that pop up all over the place to make low stone walls - which we have all over the place. 

[Raineyrocks]

I didn't read the entire post so if I'm repeating something, sorry.

Malevil gave me some great advice on gardening because we don't have lots of grass, our back yard is wood shavings.  Malevil said to get big planters and dirt, and grow what you can in those.
I haven't done it this summer because I've been almost all summer.

[Vote Tyler Stearns]

Welcome back Rainey!   

[Raineyrocks]

Welcome back Rainey!   

Thanks Malevil!

[Fragilityh14]

container gardening is great, I was just talking with someone at work about his huge tomatoes, which mostly live in the greenhouse but also go on the deck...I've became very interested in container gardening, and could be most satisfied with just cane berries, fruit trees, cole crops and other salad greens (I'm guessing brocolli etc does well there?) and then potted tomatoes, and citrus, etc, etc...hopefully corn could be grown just by creating huge cold frames?

[Rochelle]

I have a lemon tree and it's doign quite well out here so far, but it's not yet a year old so we'll see.

I'm tossing around the idea of getting a grow light to help maintain its growth in the winter.

[Kat Kanning]

Babiarz has several dwarf lemon trees - brings them inside in winter.

[Fragilityh14]

I have a lemon tree and it's doign quite well out here so far, but it's not yet a year old so we'll see.

I'm tossing around the idea of getting a grow light to help maintain its growth in the winter.

do, it needs at least six hours of strong light, even a small full spectrum bulb would be enough to help.


So what you guys are telling me is that there is a great fall growing season there?

Excellent!

[JonM]

Fall? APPLES!